Things I Read This Week: February 10, 2017

How was your week? The Super Bowl was a nacho-fueled roller coaster of emotion — Lady Gaga jumped off a roof, the Stranger Things season 2 teaser had me cancelling my plans for next Halloween, and the Patriots engineered an unbelievable comeback that is probably already being made into a movie starring Matt Damon as Tom Brady. Here’s what I’ve been reading:

Metro – Tish Murta’s Powerful Photo Series Captures Unemployed Youths of Thatcher’s Britain
“Unemployment and all its associated deprivations are not only getting worse, but new technologies threaten to make the situation permanent. Behind empty pathetic talk of increased leisure opportunities and freedom from repetitive labour, stands the spectre of enforced idleness, wasted resources and the squandering of a whole generation of human potential. This is vandalism on a grand scale.” Tish Murta wrote this in 1981. Oof.